Cucumber makes your team amazing
At a glance, Cucumber might just look like another tool for running automated tests.
But it’s more than that.
At a glance, Cucumber might just look like another tool for running automated tests.
But it’s more than that.
Cucumber merges specification and test documentation into one cohesive whole.
Because they're automatically tested by Cucumber, your specifications are always bang up-to-date.
Business and IT don't always understand each other. Cucumber's executable specifications encourage closer collaboration, helping teams keep the business goal in mind at all times.
When automated testing is this much fun, teams can easily protect themselves from costly regressions.
First, the developers, testers and business folks explore the problem domain, and collaborate to produce concrete examples that describe the behaviour they want.
Sometimes that discussion is hard, because it throws up all the misunderstandings and assumptions you’d normally discover much later on.
But that's a good thing.
Next, the team uses Cucumber to run those examples as automated acceptance tests.
As the team works on the solution, Cucumber tells you which examples are implemented and working, and warns you about the ones that aren’t.
Before you know it, you have one document that’s both the specification and the tests for your software.
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